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Improvement of Man in Body and Mind
Read before the Iowa Fine Stock Association
Des Moines. Wednesday. January 8th, 1879
By Pres. A. S. Welch of the Iowa Agril College
Mr. President,
I am confident that,
in marshalling before you the facts
which bear on the "improvement of
man in body and mind," I shall
not be compelled to depart from
the principles so often discussed in
the meetings of this association.
For let me say at the outset that
there is not a single means applied
to the improvement of the lower
animals, whether it be the effect of
food, climate, shelter, treatment,

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Improvement of Man in Body and Mind
Read before the Iowa Fine Stock Association
Des Moines. Wednesday. January 8th, 1879
By Pres. A. S. Welch of the Iowa Agril College
Mr. President,
I am confident that,
in marshalling before you the facts
which bear on the "improvement of
man in body and mind," I shall
not be compelled to depart from
the principles so often discussed in
the meetings of this association.
For let me say at the outset that
there is not a single means applied
to the improvement of the lower
animals, whether it be the effect of
food, climate, shelter, treatment,